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Medical Scientist Training Program
Rana Mansour

Rana Mansour

G2 Student

Faculty Advisor

  • Francesca Marassi, PhD, Biophysics

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

BA, Political Science, The American University in Cairo, 2020

Biography

Neurodegeneration, mitochondrial homeostasis, genomics, political etiology

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2024-Present
Advisor: Francesca Marassi, PhD

Medical College of Wisconsin, November 2022-May 2023
Advisor: Blake Hill, PhD & Allison Ebert, PhD
Project: Mitochondrial dynamics in age-related neurodegenerative diseases

Medical College of Wisconsin, November 2022-May 2023
Advisor: Blake Hill, PhD
Project: Determination of fission protein expression levels in cancer cells

Zewail City of Science and Technology, 2020-2022
Advisor: Menattallah Elserafy, PhD
Project: 1) Investigating the mechanisms of C9orf72dipeptide repeats (DPRs) toxicity; 2) Studying the relation between the exocyst complex and resistance to cancer drugs 

Publications

Ihenacho UK, Toro R, Mansour RH, Hill RB. A conserved, noncanonical insert in FIS1 mediates TBC1D15 and DRP1 recruitment for mitochondrial fission. J Biol Chem. 2023 Nov;299(11):105303. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105303. Epub 2023 Sep 28. PMID: 37777154; PMCID: PMC10641528.

Elsadany M, Elghaish RA, Khalil AS, Ahmed AS, Mansour RH, Badr E, Elserafy M. Transcriptional Analysis of Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Genes in Eight Neurodegenerative Disorders: The Analysis of Seven Diseases in Reference to Friedreich's Ataxia. Front Genet. 2021 Dec 20;12:749792. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.749792. PMID: 34987545; PMCID: PMC8721009. 

General Interests

Fencing, reading, poetry, running, political theory

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